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Jan 25, 2022 · Last week we introduced the story of George and Austin Bidwell, who notoriously defrauded the Bank of England in 1873. Now, let us go back to the beginning, starting with George and Austin’s parents. Austin Burnham Bidwell (1804-1865) married Laura Isabelle Butterfield in New York in 1832.
Jan 18, 2022 · George Bidwell and Austin Bidwell of Bank of England forgery fame, came here about a month ago. On March 7 Austin Bidwell, the younger of the two brothers, died of grip in his room in the Mantle block. The body has been in charge of an undertaker ever since, awaiting advices from relatives.
Feb 1, 2022 · George, Austin, Mac, and Ed, who were being held in the adjacent Newgate Prison, were charged with “forging and uttering numerous bills of exchange with intent to defraud the governor and company of the Bank of England.” All four prisoners pleaded not guilty. The trial lasted nine days and called 108 witnesses. The defendants were found guilty.
Jun 8, 2020 · The men who robbed the Bank of England had steamed out of New York harbor earlier that spring on an iron-hulled liner that would take more than a week to cross the Atlantic. The plot’s mastermind was Austin’s brother, George Bidwell.
Jun 16, 2019 · Welcome to Forgotten Lives! In today's episode, we are looking into the life of George Bidwell, a Victorian Forger and Conman that stole millions.Have any v...
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George Bidwell, 33 at the time of the forgeries, had been sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1865 for his part in defrauding grocers in West Virginia. [1] His brother Austin Bidwell, 25 at the time of the forgeries, was already a notorious bank forger in the United States. [4]
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Jul 21, 2008 · Forging his chains : the autobiography of George Bidwell / George Bidwell. "An authentic history of his unexampled career in America and Europe, with the story of his connection with the so-called £1,000,000 forgery on the Bank of England, and a complete account of his arrest, trial, conviction, and confinement for fourteen years in English ...
